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Accessibility Training Module for Librarians: Serving Print-Disabled Patrons

The pilot training module you have just completed was developed for the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant project, Reading for Accessibility and Inclusion, a project which has as its goal increasing the capacity of library staff to serve users with disabilities and barriers that impact their ability to read traditional print materials.

The grant was awarded to the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut, who is partnering with Benetech, a California-based nonprofit and creator of Bookshare, an accessible ebook library, to develop and pilot a training module for library staff to better serve this multi-faceted constituency. Your answers to the survey questions will inform the development of this tool. Thank you for taking part in this important work.
For the first four questions, rate your knowledge of the following on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 being the highest.
1. Your knowledge and understanding of visual disabilities (total vision loss, cataracts, corneal clouding, macular degeneration, color blindness, etc.) related to reading and traditional print materials.
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Not at all knowledgeableExtremely knowledgeable
2. Your knowledge and understanding of cognitive disabilities (e.g. dyslexia, dysgraphia, autism, etc.) related to reading traditional print materials.
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Not at all knowledgeableExtremely knowledgeable
3. Your knowledge and understanding of physical disabilities (e.g. cerebral palsy, stroke, arthritis, etc.) related to reading traditional print materials.
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Not at all knowledgeableExtremely knowledgeable
4. Your knowledge of technology resources to assist people who are blind, have low vision, or other disabilities and challenges related to reading traditional print materials.
Space Cell 12345
Smart phone and tablet assistive technology
CCTVs/Video magnifiers
Digital talking book players
Low-vision optical devices (magnifying tools)
Optical character recognition and reading systems
Screen magnifiers
Braille e-readers/refreshable Braille displays
Wearable technology
Screen readers/text-to-speech (engines)
NVDA
Narrator
Open Book
Voice Dream Reader
Voice Over (MacOS)
Voice Over (iOS)
TalkBack (for Android devices)
Kurzweil
JAWS for Windows
ReadSpeaker
5. Are you familiar with the work of the DAISY Consortium to rate reading systems?
6. Rate your knowledge of the accessibility of digital resources from these vendors for patrons with visual, cognitive and physical reading disabilities, with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 the highest. Please rate only those to which you currently subscribe.
Space Cell 12345
OverDrive
Bibliotheca
Baker & Taylor
Midwest Tape (Hoopla)
PressReader
EBSCO
ProQuest
7. Does your catalog include accessibility metadata for items in your collection?
8. Are you familiar with these metadata formats?
Space Cell YesNoNot sure
Schema.org/EPUB metadata (inside the EPUB itself)
ONIX (separate file)
MARC
JATS (Journal Articles separate file)
9. Besides what your library offers, are you aware of these resources available to your blind, low-vision, or otherwise reading disabled patrons as individual consumers?
Space Cell YesNo
Bookshare
Learning Ally
BARD: Braille and Audio Reading Downloads from the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
Internet Archive/Open Library
10. You intend to apply what you just learned
Strongly DisagreeDisagreeNeitherAgreeStrongly AgreeNot applicable
11. You feel more confident about using these resources?
Strongly DisagreeDisagreeNeitherAgreeStrongly AgreeNot applicable
14. What type of library do you work in?
16. Population Served
17. Collection size
19. If you want future updates on this project, please give us your name, email address, and organization name.
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